Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1913 — MONNETT-DE PEYSTER WILL BE CROWDED [ARTICLE]

MONNETT-DE PEYSTER WILL BE CROWDED

School for Girls Starts Third Year— A Splendid Institution for Our City. The ■‘Monnett-'De Peyeter School for Girls opened Tuesday with an enrollment of students and sufficient aeeepted applications to insure twenty within the next two weeks. This means that before the close of the year and probably before the end of the first semester, students will be turned away for lack of room. This' is remarkable when the fact Is taken int& consideration that as a school, this Institution is but three yedrs old. The first two years of its history it was maintained as a children’s home. Besides this the school room and dormitory capacity was doubled last summer and no advertising for new students has been done. This demonstrates the reaLneeil of such an institution and also its future possibilities of enlargement. Miss A 1 Verta E. Simpson, formerly the principal of Chaddock Boys’ School, at Quincy, 111., is the newly elected principal of the school. Her assistants for the yeaT are Miss Addye Griffith, of Macon, HI.; Miss Emma Houses of Liverpool, W. Va.; Miss Lena Wilcox of Newbury, N. M.; Miss Minnie Waymire, of Wolcott, Ind., ana Mrs. I. Bergllnd. Some necessary repairs and furnishings have been added this summer which render the building more comfortable and attractive and the faculty and students both enter upon the year's work with enthusiasm. ' There is no enterprise In our community which merits'\ by its careful management and its altruistic purpose, greater appreciation and heartier co-operation on the •part of.our people than this school ft# young girls. There are many worthy institutions all over our land Into which money and interest are being poured for the noble purpose of bettering humanity by methods of reformation: this Institution has for its purpose, not the reformation of a character gone wrong, bu£ the building of the highest character; in other words, it is a work of prevention rather than reclamation. There Is a fascination about, reformatory work that appeals to the fancy, but reflection tells us that the work of prevention is far more beneficial to society bqth In economy of money and of morality; and the ls*ger benefit to the child is beyond the means of estimation. There are many ways in which the citizens of Rensselaer may help on this worthy work and their co-op-eration is .well deserved. Its board of managers with two exceptions are men and wqpaen prominent in business and social circles of Rensselaer. Its business Is as far as possible carried .on through our own local dealers. As a business asset, as well as a humanitarian enterprise, It Is worthy of consideration.